5 US urban counties lead 'Terror Hot Spots' list, but rural areas not exempt
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Nearly a third of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in just five metropolitan U.S. counties, but events continue to occur in rural areas, spurred on by domestic actors, according to a report published today by researchers in the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence based at the University of Maryland.